vaticinal

vaticinal
/veuh tis"euh nl/, adj.
of, pertaining to, or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
[1580-90; < L vaticin(us) prophetic (vaticin(ari) to prophesy + -us adj. suffix) + -AL1; see VATICINATE]

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